NIGHT PRAYER: Friday 2/14

Your love for me is always perfect, Lord,
    while my love for you often falters,

        stumbles, stalls and fails...
 
You love me freely and fully, Lord,
    with patience and with mercy
though I hold back my affection,

    my devotion, my gratitude and prayer...
 
You created me for love, Lord:
    to love and to be loved,

to find in you, my heart of hearts,
    the peace for which I long...

My Valentine for you, Lord,

is anything but perfect, it's
    smudged by my transgressions,
    torn by my rough edges,
    wrinkled by my carelessness
    - and late in being sent...

Still, it comes directly from my heart:
   signed by one who loves you,
   sealed with my contrition,
   delivered with my thanks
      for your always faithful, never ending,
          perfect love for me...

I know you have a place for me

    in your eternal heart 

and so I pray: 

    receive the heart 

        I offer you tonight...

 

Lord, be my love, my Valentine

    as I trust I am yours...
 
Protect me, Lord, while I'm awake,
    keep vigil while I sleep
that awake, I might keep watch with you
    and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen.

 

My God Loves Me

    music by Jean Paul Egide Martini,

    lyrics by Sharon Wilson,

    sung by Harmonious Chorale

 

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My God loves me.
His love will never end.
He rests with - in my heart
For my God loves me.

His gentle hand
He stretches over me.
Though storm-clouds threaten the day
He will set me free.

He comes to me
In sharing bread and wine,
He brings me life that will reach
Past the end of time.

My God loves me,
His faithful love endures.
And I will live like a child
Held in love secure.

The joys of love
As offerings now we bring,
The pains of love will be lost
In the praise we sing.

 

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